Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 3701, Samuel Fowle, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Fowle, Samuel Fowls
R.3701
or Sales
CONTENTS

DECLARATION.
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th June, 1832.
STATE OF MAINE, } ss. COUNTY OF LINCOLN, }
ON this twenty fourth day of May 1841 personally appeared in open Court, before the Justices of the Court of Sessions now sitting, Samuel Fowle a resident of Whitefield in the County of Lincoln and State of Maine, aged seventy seven years who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated. to wit, in the spring of the year 1779 at Edgecomb in said County of Lincoln I enlisted as a private soldier in the War of the Revolution in the Massachusetts Militia for six months in the Company commanded by Captain Semonb, Lieutenants Shaw and Sargeant Samson were the other Officers in said Company. I believe that Capt. Hinckley first commanded the Company. Capt. Hinckley went on the Buzzards expedition that year and was killed there. I did not go on that expedition, but our Company was stationed in small parcels at & near the mouth of Sheepscot river to guard the coast, a part were on Sawyer Island and a part on Squam Island & a communication kept up between our posts by row boats. After the Buzzards expedition some of Capt. Hinckley's men came back & joined our Company. I think our Company belonged to Col. Mr. Cobb's Regiment. Ebenezer Chase, James Colby, Abiah Hodsdon were privates in said Company. I served out the six months fully and was discharged on Squam Island & returned home with the aforesaid James Colby.
And to the interrogatories propounded under the instructions of the War Department he answers as follows, viz: That he was born in Wiscasset in said County in the year 1764, that he lived on Squam Island in the town of Edgecomb in said County when called into the above mentioned service, that after the Revolutionary War he removed to the above mentioned town of Whitefield where he has resided as many as fifty years, he does not know of any record of his age, he has given the names of all the officers he can now recollect, that he was discharged verbally, that all of his neighbors can testify as to his character for veracity & their belief of his services as a soldier in the Revolutionary War but he particularly refers to Ebenezer Chase & William Chase.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State.
Attest, J. Bailey J. H. Dinkham
Samuel Fowle mark
Sworn to, and subscribed, this day and year aforesaid. in open court
Before
Nathan Weston
Judge of the Court
C. J. of S. J. Court

WE, Ebenezer Moore residing in the town of Whitfield and William Cheney residing in the said town of Whitfield hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Samuel Fowle who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy seven years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Ebenezer Moore
William Cheney
State of Maine.
LINCOLN, ss. Sworn and subscribed this twenty seventh day of May
A. D. 1821.
Before me, Jermiah Bailey Justice of the Peace
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that Ebenezer Moore who has signed the preceding certificate, is a resident in the town of Whitfield and that William Cheney who has also signed the same is a resident in the said town of Whitfield and are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Nathan Weston
State of Maine.
TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.
LINCOLN, ss. I Nathaniel Hubbard Clerk of all the Judicial Courts within and for the County of Lincoln, do hereby certify that Nathan Weston Esq. whose name is affixed to the above certificate, as Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court is legally commissioned and duly qualified to act as such, and that the name so affixed is his own proper signature, to me well known.
IN TESTIMONY whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court this twenty third day of June A. D. 1821.
Nathaniel Hubbard CLERK.
Samuel Fowle

Samuel Fowles Supplementary Statement

I Samuel Fowl, of Whitefield in the County of Lincoln, State of Maine, make this supplementary statement to my Declaration as to my services in the Revolutionary War already forwarded to the Pension Department, viz.
Upon further reflection & consideration I feel satisfied that it was not in the year 1779 as supposed stated in my declaration, that I served, but that it was in the year 1780 or 1781.
The following named persons were in the same Company with me, and I have understood that they have all drawn pensions, viz. Moses Huff, Ebenezer Chase, Obadiah Albee, James Colby, David Reed, Moses Trask, Nathaniel Rundlett, Caleb Hodgson, Ebenezer Moore. Lieutenant Shaw & Sargeant Sampson were in the Company. I think our Captain was named Simont, but we had very little to do with our Captain, because our Company was divided into small squads to guard the coast.
I most respectfully request that the muster rolls for 1780 and 1781 may be examined, and I am confident my name will be found with the persons above named, whether the Captain's name was Simont or not, or whatever year the services were performed in. I think that it was the year that Cornwallis surrendered.
As I have no way or means to search the military records, I most earnestly wish the rolls may be examined that contain the names of the above mentioned persons, and then my name will undoubtedly be found.
I have stated in the annexed Affidavit the reasons why I did not apply sooner.
I am quite certain that I was 17 or 18 years old when I enlisted. —
I have stated above, that the aforesaid privates all have drawn pensions, but I must except Ebenezer Moore who has not yet drawn.
Attest. J. Bailey
Samuel his + Fowl Mark

State of Maine
County of Lincoln ss. July 31 st 1841. Personally appeared before me Jeremiah Bailey a Justice of the Peace within & for the County of Lincoln, State of Maine, the within named Samuel Fowl, and made oath that the within additional statement by him subscribed is true according to his best remembrance & belief.
Jeremiah Bailey Just. Peace

I Samuel Fowls of Whitfield in the County of Lincoln and State of Maine, Yeoman - under oath do testify and say that about seven years ago, I applied to one James Marr of Alna in the County aforesaid Gentleman to assist me in procuring my pension for services done by me in the Revolutionary struggle - that said Marr promised to assist me, but at that time important business called said Marr to England - After Mr Marr's departure - it being represented to me by my Neighbors and others, that if I procured a pension it would be attended with great expense, being poor myself, without horse or carriage, and no way to travel except on foot, aged and infirm, I did nothing further about it, until I applied to the Hon. Jeremiah Bailey of Wiscasset last Spring - when it was told me that said Bailey was usually employed by the soldiers of the revolution, who resided in the vicinity of Wiscasset to procure their pensions - Attest, Warren Rundlett - Samuel Fowls
Lincoln ss. July 28. 1841. Then personally appeared the above named Samuel Fowls and made oath to the truth of the foregoing statement by him subscribed - Before me
Warren Rundlett Jus. of Peace
Lincoln ss. July, 28. 1841. Then personally appeared the above named James Marr and made oath that the above statement made by Samuel Fowls in relation to said Fowls calling upon him to aid him in procuring his pension; but at that time important business called him to England, is true - Before me
Warren Rundlett Jus. of Peace

STATE OF Maine County of Lincoln
} ss.
Mary Hale - being duly
sworn according to law, deposes and says that she is the widow of Samuel Hale deceased, to whom a pension was probably due, that this deponent is directly interested
in said claim.
Sworn and subscribed before me this 14 th day May 185 5 and (I do hereby certify that the said Mary Hale is a respectable person, and that I have full faith in the truth of the above statement sworn to by her as being directly interested in said claim.)
Know all Men by these Presents, That I Mary Hale widow of Samuel Hale - deceased, to whom a pension was probably due, do hereby constitute and appoint ARAD JOY, of Ovid, N. Y., my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name as one directly and personally interested in the claim or application for a pension
Witness my hand and seal, this 14 th day of May - 185 5
Sealed and delivered in the presence of
John McKellar
Mary Hale 
Nancy P. Grafton
STATE OF Maine County of Lincoln
{ Be it known that on the 14 th day of May 185 5
before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County and State, duly authorized by law to administer oaths and take acknowledgements, personally appeared Mary Hale above named, and duly acknowledged the above power of attorney and affidavit to be her act and deed.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand the day and date above mentioned.
Asa Coombs Justice of the Peace

Deposition
Revly Papers
Samuel Fowle
+ Lydia Fowle
Maine
filed 9 July 1852
F. C. Hadsell

POWER OF ATTORNEY
For ascertaining whether any increase or arrears of Pension are due the Widow or heirs of Revolutionary Pensioners, &c.*
State of Maine
County of Lincoln
William N. Litus — a Justice of the Peace — William Fowle
Be it known that before me
personally appeared William Fowle aged 58 years, who being duly cautioned and then sworn in due form of law, states that he is the son of Samuel Fowle who was a Revolutionary Soldier, or Pensioner of the State of Maine and that he died on the 17 th day of June 1847 and that his mother named Lydia died on the 11 th day of April 1852 and that they were married on the 2 a day of November in the year 1785 and that they were residents of Whitefield in the State of Maine and that they resided there 65 years, and that he resides in Whitefield and that furthermore He BY THESE PRESENTS, constitutes, appoints and fully empowers and authorises irrevocably and with powers of substitution—F. E. Hassler of Washington City, D. C., as his true and lawful Attorney for him and in his name and stead, to examine into, to prosecute, to demand, and to receive from the U. S. Government Officers his rights in all and in any manner of claim for increase or arrears of Pension or Land, that may be due him as heir or son of Samuel Fowle who died leaving the same undrawn, as in right of law, custom, or equity he is or may be entitled.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF He has on this 17 th day of June 1852, hereunto signed his name and affixed his seal.
William Fowle
Witness: Cuthbert Grewell Witness: Daniel Potter
Signed, Sealed, acknowledged and Sworn to before me, on this 17 th day of June 1852
William N. Litus J. P.
At the same time personally appeared before me William N. Litus Justice of the Peace two credible and disinterested witnesses named Cuthbert Grewell and Daniel Potter residents of the aforesaid County and State, who having been by me cautioned and then duly sworn according to law, do depose and say each for himself, that he has always heard it said and it is generally believed by the community that Samuel Fowle was a Revolutionary soldier and that William Fowle was by him always treated as and is by the witnesses believed to be the son of the said Revolutionary Soldier.
Cuthbert Grewell Daniel Potter
Sworn to before me the day and year first above written.
William N. Litus J. P.
State of Maine
County of Lincoln
to wit:
I HEREBY CERTIFY, That William N. Litus Esq., before whom the foregoing affidavits and acknowledgment were made, and who has thereunto subscribed his name, was at the time of so doing, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn, and that his signature above written is genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court, this Eighteenth day of June one thousand eight hundred and fifty two
Edmund B. Beman Clerk.
* If a Widow applies state "the date of marriage, and date of death of her husband."

No 35,221
Samuel Fowle
State of Maine
Suspended
See letter to Rev. Bailey, July 1. 1841
to same B. Nov. 1841
" Brad Joy, June 11/53-
Act of June 1832

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
REJECTED
3701
P. O.
Samuel Howle
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.

No Samuel Foulis of Maine - etc
Samuel Foulis
Me - July 1857
No other case on
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Mr Samuel Yale 51 Nassau St
Samuel Yale
Mar - 22 1832
No other case on
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L D Waldo Comt of Pen. Washington Del

Hon. Jonathan L. Edwards, Commissioner of Pensions
Washington

Sir,
Wiscasset, Maine, June 23. 1841
I herewith enclose two applications for Pensions under the Act of June 7. 1832.
The Applicants respectfully request that communication may be made to me.
With great respect,
Your most Ob t Serv t ?
Jeremiah Bailey
Hon. Jonathan L. Edward, Commissioner of Pensions —
1841 77 1764 57 1779

— State of Maine —
Lincoln Co.
To all whom it may concern.
I Wales Hubbard, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts within the County of Lincoln, do hereby Certify that Jeremiah Bailey Esq whose name is affixed to the annexed Depositions, as a Justice of the Peace is legally commissioned & duly qualified to act as such, and that the name so affixed is his own proper signature to me well known.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court, this Twenty third day of June Anno Domini 1841.
Wales Hubbard Clerk

I Ebenezer Chase of Edgecomb in the State of Maine aged seventy five years on oath depose and say, that I am well acquainted with Samuel Fowle of Whitfield in said State. We were boys together & grew up together. My memory is nearly gone and I cannot go into particulars. I served in Capt. Hinckley's company in the year 1779. The company was divided into three or four parts under the command of Sergeants, to guard the coast at the mouth of Sheepscot river. While I served in said Company I often saw said Fowle in its service as a private soldier, he belonged to another Sergeant's guard different from mine, but I often saw him. I have no doubt but he continued in the company until they were discharged in the fall of the year. Capt. Hinckley was killed that year on the Baggaduce Expedition. After his death I do not now recollect who was appointed Captain. We had but little to do with the Captain, as the company was cut up in small squads under the command of the under Officers. I recollect Lieutenants Shaw & Sergeant Samson - the latter commanded the guard in which I was - said Fowle was stationed on Squam Island at Hodydon Point.
Attest
J. Bailey
Ebenezer his X Chase mark

State of Maine
Lincoln p. June 22 nd 1811 Personally appeared the within named Ebenezer Chase before me Jer- -emiah Bailey one of the Justices of the Peace within & for the County of Lincoln and after being duly com- -moned & sworn, made solemn oath to the truth of the within deposition by him subscribed in my presence. And I further certify that the within named deponent is a person of good credit & reputation in whose testimony confidence may be placed.
Jeremiah Bailey Justice of the Peace

I Moses Steff of Edgecomb in the State of Maine aged seventy nine years on oath depose and say, that I am well acquainted with Samuel Fowle of Whitfield in said State. He was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. In the spring of the year 1779 I enlisted into Capt. Hinckley, Company. Part of the Company went to Penobscot on the Bagaduce expedition, and a part was left in Boothbay in said State to guard the coast, & were stationed on Sawyer Island, on Squam Island at Hodgdons, at Boothbay Harbor, in small detachments. I went to Bagaduce, and there Capt. Hinckley was killed, when I returned back I found that Capt. Lemont had been appointed Captain of the Company on Capt. Hinck- ley's death. On my return I found the above named Samuel Fowle serving as a private in said Company and stationed on Squam Island at Hodgdons, I was stationed at Sawyer's Island about a mile from where said Fowle was, we communicated by boats, there detached squads were under the command of Sergeants, Capt. Lemont would sometimes come & visit these posts, he was usually at a place called Bozes' head on the Pen- obscot River. I often went with said Fowle to Bozes' head to draw our provisions. I know that said Fowle remained & served in said Company until the men were discharged, which was on the last of October or the first of November 1779. I do not know of my own knowledge at what time said Fowle enlisted, but I always understood that it was in the spring of the year 1779. I was discharged at the same

time that said Fowle was discharged. Ebenezer Chase who now draws a pension was in the same Company and served on Saugus Island. John Shaw was a Lieutenant, and James Samson was a Sergeant in Simonds Company.
Moses Huff
State of Maine
Lincoln ss. May 14. 1841, Personally appeared the above named Moses Huff before me Jeremiah Bailey one of the Justices of the Peace within & for the County of Lincoln and after being duly cautioned & sworn, made solemn oaths to the truth of the foregoing deposition by him subscribed in my presence. And I further certify that the within named deponent is a person of good credit & reputation in whose testimony confidence may be placed.
Jeremiah Bailey Justice of the Peace.

No 35221 Samuel Fowle - State of Maine, Act 7 th June, 1832
5701

I Ebenezer Moore of Whitefield in the County of Lincoln, State of Maine, aged seventy seven years last December, on oath depose & say, that I am well acquainted with Sam- uel Fowle of Whitefield aforesaid, that in the spring of the year 1779 said Fowle enlisted as a private soldier for six months and served out the time in Capt. Lemont's Company, I served six months in the same Company. I do not know but Capt. Hinckley had the command of the Company in the early part of the year. He went the same year on the Bagga- -deer expedition & was killed. Capt. Lemont might have succeeded Capt. Hinckley. We did not see very much of our Captain, because our Com- -pany was stationed about in small squads, & communicated by boats. Lieutenant Shaw & Sargent Samson were Officers in our Company. Said Fowle was stationed a part of the time on Sawyer's Island, & a part of the time on Squam Island. We were all discharged about the same time late in the fall of that year. I understood that our Company belonged to Col. M c Cobb's Regiment.
Asst. Adj t Moore
Attest, J. Bailey

State of Maine.
Lincoln ss. May 27, 1841, Personally appeared the within named Eleanor Moore before Jeremiah Bailey one of the Justices of the Peace within & for the County of Lincoln, and after being duly cautioned & sworn, made solemn oath to the truth of the within deposition by her subscribed in my presence. And I further certify that the within named deponent is a person of good credit & reputation in whose testimony confidence may be placed.
Jeremiah Bailey Justice of the Peace

1) Ebenezer Moore 77
1779. 6 mo. Serant. Hinkley, Colfobbs Coast Guards.
Vol 31 p 49 mounted on - in 1781 £ 14-10 £ 12-10
2) Samuel Fowle 77 Same — See this paper also on file.
Vol 31 p 52
Sam Fols
Parker co - dill
£ 8, 14
1840 Chas Chase with age 75 1775 1774
Vol 31 p 92 Left 1779 - not on 3 49 1781 £ 12 10 Lament a

Vol 31 p 494 52
8. 12 J. Galt J. Parker Ed McComb 1781 Apr 8 mo
Thomas? Mrs. Mark McAlister mng 1779 12
Mrs. Huff Mabel 112 10 1781 " 3 mo 90 1781
More Bellon Harkly " "
8. 10 Ob. Albee J. Parker McComb 1781.
15. 0 " Samuel 1781
8. 10 Calb. Hoagden 2 mo
J. Reed
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Ovid N.Y. June 2 o 1855
Sir
I inclose power of attorney, what I want is a copy of the alleged service of Samuel Hale, who applied from Maine, under law of 1832 it may be spelled Horde, or nearly that name
Most respectfully Your Ob st Serv t Adad Joy
Hon L. P. Waldo Can d .